aviditatem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aviditas, aviditatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
greed, covetousness; keen desire, lust/passion; appetite (food/drink), gluttony;
acc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...multum detraxerant viribus; parsimonia tamen et eorum quae aviditatem evocant modus et diligens sui tutela perduxit illum..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...parata peccantibus, et pro consule in omnem aviditatem pronus quantalibet facilitate redempturus esset mutuam dissimulationem mali. Auctus..."